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The Path: What Chinese Philosophers Can Teach Us About the Good Life
Michael J Puett · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback
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For the first time, an award-winning Harvard professor shares his wildly popular course on classical Chinese philosophy, showing you how ancient ideas - like the fallacy of the authentic self - can guide you on the path to a good life today.Why is a course on ancient Chinese philosophers... |
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Surviving Death: A Journalist Investigates Evidence for an Afterlife
Leslie Kean · Crown
Pages: 416
Format: Print book
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"While exploring the evidence for an afterlife, I witnessed some unbelievable things that are not supposed to be possible in our material world. Yet they were unavoidably and undeniably real. Despite my initial doubt, I came to realize that there are still aspects of Nature which are neither... |
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In Search of Israel: The History of an Idea
Michael Brenner · Princeton University Press
Pages: 392
Format: Hardcover
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A major new history of the century-long debate over what a Jewish state should beMany Zionists who advocated the creation of a Jewish state envisioned a nation like any other. Yet for Israel's founders, the state that emerged against all odds in 1948 was anything but ordinary. Born from... |
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The Islamic Enlightenment: The Struggle Between Faith and Reason, 1798 to Modern Times
Christopher de Bellaigue · Liveright Publishing Corporation
Pages: 560
Format: Print book
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A revelatory and game-changing narrative that rewrites everything we thought we knew about the modern history of the Islamic world. With majestic prose, Christopher de Bellaigue presents an absorbing account of the political and social reformations that transformed the lands of Islam in the nineteenth... |
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God: A Human History
REZA ASLAN · Random House
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
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The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Zealot and host of Believer explores humanity's quest to make sense of the divine, and sounds a call to embrace a deeper, more expansive understanding of God. In Zealot, Reza Aslan replaced the well-worn portrayal of Jesus of Nazareth with a startling... |
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The Book of Shadows: White, Red and Black Magic Spells
Brittany Nightshade · CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Pages: 187
Format: Paperback
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EDIT: Updates for 2017! Added more spells, illustrations and a glossary. I compiled this Book of Shadows from a collection of spells I have been using since I started down my path. This book contains over 100 spells, a list of runes, how they can be used in spell casting and even crafting... |
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The Desert and the Sea: 977 Days Captive on the Somali Pirate Coast
MICHAEL SCOTT MOORE · Harper Wave
Pages: 451
Format: Hardcover
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Michael Scott Moore, a journalist and the author of Sweetness and Blood, incorporates personal narrative and rigorous investigative journalism in this profound and revelatory memoir of his three-year captivity by Somali pirates - a riveting,thoughtful, and emotionally resonant exploration... |
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The Art of Living: Peace and Freedom in the Here and Now
THICH NHAT HANH · HarperOne
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover
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In troubled times, there is an urgency to understand ourselves and our world. We have so many questions, and they tug at us night and day, consciously and unconsciously. In this important volume Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh - - one of the most revered spiritual leaders in the world today... |
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Letters to a Young Muslim
Omar Saif Ghobash · Picador
Pages: 244
Format: Print book
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From the Ambassador of the UAE to Russia comes Letters to a Young Muslim, a bold and intimate exploration of what it means to be a Muslim in the twenty-first century.In a series of personal letters to his son, Omar Saif Ghobash offers a short and highly readable manifesto that tackles our current... |
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A Little Bit of Wicca: An Introduction to Witchcraft
Cassandra Eason · Sterling Ethos
Pages: 116
Format: Hardcover
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From an acclaimed author on witchcraft, an easy-to-use, informative introduction to Wicca. Wicca is growing in popularity, and Cassandra Eason - much admired for her writing on spiritual subjects - takes a look at its origins, its uses in everyday life, and its gods and goddesses. She explains... |
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The Paradigm: The Ancient Blueprint That Holds the Mystery of Our Times
Jonathan Cahn · Frontline
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
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This May Be the Most Explosive and Amazing Thing You've Ever ReadIs it possible that an ancient blueprint holds the secret behind the events of our times?Could this blueprint lie behind the rise and fall of leaders and governments?Could events that took place nearly three thousand years... |
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The Priest Barracks: Dachau 1938 - 1945
GUILLAUME ZELLER · Ignatius Press
Pages: 280
Format: Paperback
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At the Nazi concentration camp Dachau, three barracks out of thirty were occupied by clergy from 1938 to 1945. The overwhelming majority of the 2,720 men imprisoned in these barracks were Catholics - 2,579 priests, monks, and seminarians from all over Europe. More than a third of the prisoners... |
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